I didn't say we should ignore splits. To reiterate: most third-party data providers include splits by restating historical prices. This only works if you want to analyse performance at individual stock level by ignoring holdings. But if you want to do performance analysis for your own portfolio of stocks, relying on restated prices is incorrect.

Eg. If you bought say 10 stocks at the old price, you cannot take the restated historical price with your 10 stocks and you cannot take the units held of 10 stocks with the new prices. You have to account for this via transactions to increase your holdings (for splits) by leaving the prices historically the same.